Ep. 339 | The History of Chinese Medicine (Part 3)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The focus in Part 3 will be on the Song Dynasty, the Jin and the Yuan. Looming large in Chinese medicine during this fertile period was Sun Simiao, the 药王 or King of Medicines. We'll look at his life as well as many others: Wang Shuhe 王叔和, more Tao Hongjing 陶弘景, Ge Hong 葛洪, Gong Qingxuan 龚庆宣, Chao Yuanfang 巢元方， and others. If you'll be in London Feb 1-2-3, I'll be there collaborating with the London Science Museum. Details here: https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/zimingzhong Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:53.0	Welcome back everyone, Lauslle Montgomery here with another China History
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1:00.0	The History of Chinese Medicine Part 3 this time.
1:03.4	I'd like to look at a few odds and ends from in between the Jin Dynasty and the Northern and
1:09.2	Southern Dynasies period up to the Sui and the Tang in the 7th century.
1:14.0	Then I'd like to circle back, if no one has too much objection,
1:18.0	and examine the other most famous of ancient Chinese medical texts, the Shen Nong, Banza-jing, or divine
1:26.4	farmers materia medica, among a myriad of other foreign names it goes by.
1:34.0	We've looked at a lot of the mythical founding fathers of Chinese medicine
1:38.0	and some of the lore surrounding their prominence as early physicians.
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